Blogger problems!!!

Apologies to those who have read my post for today twice because there are two different links to it. This is largely down to Blogger not working properly! When I tried to publish my post this morning, it told me it was unsuccessful, and yet later when the site came back up after going down at around 7.30am this morning, there were 3 copies on there! I have deleted the wrong ones, but they are still appearing on my blogspot - weird! Hopefully this second post for today will boot it out of the way, but maybe that's wishful thinking...

Normal service will resume shortly... I hope!

Up at 5am... ouch!

So, last night to wind down I watched CSI and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on 5... bad idea! Woke up at 5am with a nightmare! Dreamed I was someone else, with a big family in the US and a massacre had happened in my huge American style condo, every cupboard I opened was spattered with blood and I was told the only person I could trust anymore was my unborn baby! They stripped us of everything, loaded us into a minibus and drove us away... and then I woke up! I was so shaken I was too scared to go to the loo for a whole 10 mins until I realised none of it was true and pulled myself together!!!

I think weird dreams must be a pregnancy thing. I remember earlier on in my pregnancy having a dream about having the baby early, and it started out as a boy, and grew up to be an adult girl in one day - and someone I knew from work too! Strange, eh? Well, had another dream the other day that Gareth and I had moved to the country (probably the result of the conversation I had with him earlier that night about his parents moving to the countryside and doing a selfbuild - how much fun would that be?!) and I had the baby with me on the train and we were going to visit my parents... strange!

Well, this weekend has been a bit of a disaster. I had Thursday and Friday off work this week (finish on wednesday next week, then its maternity leave til May, YAY!) and felt fine until lunch time on Thursday. The sore throat, sneezing and general ickyness started then, and I've felt rough ever since. Yep, thanks to some lovely person probably at work or in the lift in the block where I live, Gareth and I both caught colds at exactly the same time. And of course, being pregnant I'm not allowed to take any of the normal remedies! Argh! Dont get me wrong, am still LOVING being pregnant and I'm so not ready to have her leave my bump yet, (I'd miss her - does that sound weird?!) but the one thing I dont tolerate very well is not knowing when something will finish and not being able to do anything about it - ie cant take lemsip, or anything with decongestant in, so no nasal sprays either. Apparently, even though on the news the other morning they said that the government are looking at giving all pregnant women the flu jab, when I asked at my asthma clinic appointment Thursday morning whether I should have it or not I was told that the governments disscussions are about how to tackle the problem NEXT year... doh! Wish the news people would check their stories out at least once in a while... lol! Then the car broke yesterday, blew up on the motorway - got a call at early o clock from Gareth who was halfway to Bisley to shoot, and ended up in tears on the phone to my mum and dad, then Katrina... but the good side was that mum and dad came and got me and I had a lovely long bath at their house... and did nothing all day! Ahh....!

Anyways, so the midwife came on Friday morning, and we got to listen to baby's heartbeat again which is always lovely, but we got the lecture about vitamin K. Hm. What the hell is vitamin K anyway?! Apparently some babies when they are born (and only a very small percentage) have a bleed. This is either from the umbilical cord when its cut, can be a nose bleed, or more vitally can be a bleed in its brain. So vitamin K has something to do with blood clotting I believe. However, even though a small portion of babies were affected, it was decided (by the government!) that all babies should have it. Unfortunately, they later realised that the vaccination could be linked with childhood Leukemia. Great! I've asked my Mum whether she had me and my brother done with vitamin K when we were born, and she doesnt remember it existing then, so we were either given it without her having the choice, or it wasnt in circulation yet. So, we basically have to decide whether to have our child innoculated and put her at risk of Leukemia later in childhood, or risk a possibility of her having a bleed and possibly that resulting in brain damage. I tell you, the path of parenthood is not easy, and I'm not even a parent yet! Argh!

Baby has mattresses to sleep on! Ordered new made to measure ones off a shop called 'Mattress Makers for Babies' on ebay, got a foam one for the swinging crib and a sprung one for the big cot when she's a little older. Not too expensive either! Now all I have to do is make the bedding, clean the bedroom, give the crib another wash down, clean the front room, move all the furniture round, make the whole place childproof... ah, who am I kidding? I'll never get all this done the size I am!Anyway, gonna finish there because I've written far too much and you're probably asleep by now... lol! Plus need to catch Jane and the Dragon @9 on channel 5- best kids show EVER!

Once, twice, three posts a... miracle!?

Wow, here I am again! Only a quick post in my lunch break at work (yes, even though I am now only in work 3 days a week, I still only have time to post at work in my lunch breaks, how ironic!) but a post never the less!!!

Why can I never be on time to work?! What is it that goes wrong? Is it just down to the fact that I am rapidly approaching 9 months pregnant, or am I just REALLY bad at planning my time? This morning was one of those mornings when EVERYTHING that could have gone wrong, went wrong. I had even ironed my trousers for work the night before so I didnt have to do it in the morning...

Knowing that Southampton has a record number of roadworks at the moment (all major routes into town - how convenient!!!) I had planned to get up early and leave early. It seems someone else had other plans for me!!! I was outside by 9 o clock, and Gareth was very pleased that he'd got me here on time - untill I pointed out that I'm supposed to be ready to start work AT NINE and I still had to get up a flight of stairs (you try it with a baby and a whole lot of amniotic fluid!) and turn my PC on which was built roughly around the jurrasic period and therefore takes at least 10 minutes to wake up and function even a 10th as fast as my home computer!

Ah well, only 3 weeks to go, thats 9 working days, and then I'm off!! Hopefully stress free... well, until the baby is born that is, but I'm still betting it will be better than dealing with grumpy financial advisers and clients all day...

Enough of my rantings, time to start working again in a minute, and I still have some lasagne to eat...!

I failed!!!!

Well, after a small reminder from Rob, I realised that I have failed in my mission to keep my blog up to date. But here's the good news - I've now gone part time at work, so inbetween preparing for baby, I might stand a cat in hell's chance of actually keeping this blog up to date!

The news for this week...

Was my Mum's birthday yesterday, she's been a bit down lately so I decided to put a pamper kit together for her, and took her to lunch in Cadnam. I think it cheered her up a bit. When we got back I persuaded Dad to take me down to the butchers while Mum was out, so that we could get some (very expensive!) steak, which was Mum's choice of birthday dinner. Unfortunately while we were trying to cook it I got some really strong Braxton Hicks contractions and had to dissapear to the loo, I swear they thought I'd gone into labor!!!!

Anyway, today I am relaxing! I did far too much over the weekend and didnt realise until it was too late! On Sunday I went to my new church (Thornhill Baptist Church) which was great. I;ve only been 4 times so far, but I keep making new friends and meeting new people EVERY week - they are so friendly! All the other churches I've been to recently have been big, charismatic type churches, and you get a 'Hello' on the door but thats about it... people are far too caught up with the friends they have already made to bother about the new people. Its sad, but true. Anyway, met a lovely lady called Chris who works for the police, and an bloke called Ron who has connections with Millbrook Baptist church (Now Freemantle Baptist) which is where we used to go to church when I was little. I got so caught up in talking to them that it was only when they started turning out the hall lights that I realised I had been there an hour after the service had finished, and still hadnt had any lunch!!!

Anyway, went to M&S that lunch time to treat myself to a nice pasta salad and some chocolate covered raisins (they are really good at boosting your iron levels so the midwife tells me - I dont need telling to eat chocolate twice!) but started to feel really ill. Sat in the carpark for a bit and worked up the energy to do some shopping in Sainsburys (no point in going to Burselden Tesco on a Sunday because the traffick to the market blocks the roads - not fun!) But had to stop half way round and pay for what I had because I felt like I was about to faint! Also not fun!

Then I went to see Granny and Grandad which was nice, had a cuppa and helped Grandad with his computer - I'm so impressed with him, there arent many nearly-eighty year olds who are willing to dable with digital camera's and PC's! And then went to pick Gareth up from the red jet. (He'd been shooting on the island). Problem was the sea was so choppy that by the time we got home I felt exhausted and dizzy, and he was still suffering from sea sickness!! We sat there for an hour before I finally managed to coax him into making dinner!!!

Anyway, thats quite enough for now - must remeber to update more often so that my posts arent so long!!! I'm off to wash and dry baby clothes, see you later!!